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On the 6th Of February 1820, The first organized immigration of freed slaves to Africa from the United States departs New York harbor on a journey...
In the very early morning of February 4, 1976, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake levels much of Guatemala City, killing 23,000 people and leaving one million others homeless....
On January 30th 1948, Mohandas Gandhi, the world’s chief advocate of non-violence, is assassinated in New Delhi by a terrorist sponsored by a right-wing Hindu militia group....
On January 29 1834, Andrew Jackson becomes the first president to use federal troops to quell labor unrest. Workers building the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal were rebelling...
On January 28 2016, The U.S. State Department angrily accuses the Soviet Union of shooting down an American jet that strayed into East German airspace. Three...
On January 26 1500, Spanish explorer Vicente Yanez Pinzon, Discovered Brazil. He had commanded the Nina during Christopher Columbus’ first expedition to the New World, reaches the...
On 25th January, 1981, Jiang Qing, the widow of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death for her “counter-revolutionary crimes” during the Cultural Revolution.
On 24th January 1939, An 8.3-magnitude earthquake centered in south central Chile leaves 50,000 people dead and 60,000 injured. The disaster came just 33 years after...
On 23rd January 1556, an earthquake in Shaanxi, China, kills an estimated 830,000 people. Counting casualties is often imprecise after large-scale disasters, especially prior to the 20th...
On 22nd January 1973, a plane returning Muslim pilgrims from Mecca crashes in Kano, Nigeria, killing 176 people. It was the deadliest air disaster of its...